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Help! Our 4 1/2 month old isn't sleeping anymore. What should we do?

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Hi! My husband and I are at our wits end with our baby girl. She was finally at a point where she was sleeping 6 hours from the time we put her to bed, waking once around 3 or 4am for a quick feed and a change, and then sleeping again until around 7am. About a month ago she started waking up more throughout the night, every 2 or 3 hours. Some nights since then she would do 4 hours stretches, but 3 hours was probably the average stretch. I was okay with this, I just assumed she was going through a growth spurt. She was still easy to get back to sleep, so I just went with it. About a week ago she hardly slept a wink and since then has only been sleeping in 45-90 minute stretches. On top of that, it seems almost impossible to even get her to sleep. She will be sound asleep in one of our arms and then wide awake and screaming the moment we put her down. We have been sleeping in shifts for a week (thank goodness he's a teacher and has the summer off). We are at our wits end. HELP!

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